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Canadian books communicate real good

In an entry on his Macleans blog from earlier this month, Brian Bethune laments the lapses of grammar in a number of recent Canadian books, using the multiple mistakes found in the Giller-nominated DeNiro’s Game ... Read More »

January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Is CanLit edgy?

By Nathan Whitlock

A story in The Toronto Star asks whether contemporary Canadian literature is or isn't "anti-urban and anti-modern in spirit, and inimical to experimental writers" – like Douglas Coupland, who sparked the debate with an online ... Read More »

August 25, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

More on GraSS

By Cassandra Drudi

The fallout from Gunther Grass's SS confessions continues to fly fast and furious, with everyone throwing their two cents at the man, hoping to gouge out an eye or at least chip a tooth. Bookninja ... Read More »

August 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Norton busts out Uncle Tom

By Cassandra Drudi

Uncle Tom's Cabin: key historic text or racist claptrap? PW Daily's Three Answers column put this question to Norton executive editor Robert Weil, whose company is publishing September's The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. They grill ... Read More »

August 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

The most awesome book-to-movie adaptations ever

By Cassandra Drudi

In this week's edition, The Onion A.V. Club laid down 15 book-to-film adaptations that live up to their source material. Some of them are even better than the source material, such as The Godfather, Jaws, ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

The summer reading list — with a twist

By Cassandra Drudi

The summer months seem to be an open invitation for everyone who's ever stuck their nose in a book to offer their summer reading recommendations, lists that are often peppered with questionable choices and sometimes ... Read More »

July 5, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Film to book

By Leigh Anne Williams

Whither the novelization? That's the question Slate asks in a recent piece, noting that the once-thriving literary subgenre of quickie screenplay adaptations is now limited to only the most genre-friendly of movies. For example, there ... Read More »

June 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Da Vinci Code trial wraps up

By Scott MacDonald

Hearings for the Dan Brown copyright infringement case wrapped up yesterday, and Sarah Lyall of The New York Times, for her part, thinks she knows who will win. Brown's publisher, Random House, is being sued ... Read More »

March 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

On the historical value of a pink plastic belt

By Scott MacDonald

Though her books are some of the more famous YA novels to have been banned in libraries, very few people know of the changes Judy Blume voluntarily made to one of her books in the ... Read More »

March 7, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Your name imprint

By Scott MacDonald

Addressing the double-edge of book publishing -- the glut of books published and the need for each book to be distinctive -- Julie Annan recently reported on the Telegraph website that now, more than ever, ... Read More »

February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

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